# charger
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English chargere, equivalent to charge +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtʃɑːdʒə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɚ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)

### Noun

charger (plural chargers)
* A device that charges or recharges.
    Put the batteries in the charger overnight so we can use them tomorrow.
** 2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13:GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service.
* One who charges.
** 2018, Robert J. Stoller, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred:That attack may damage the homosexual, but even as he is hurt, he also feels superior, because he is not a bull—a blind, stupid animal. Rather, he is an aesthete—a tweaker, not a charger.
* (historical, military) A large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry (of a lighter build than a destrier).
    The knight rode a white charger.
** 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed.
* A large platter.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 14:8:And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
* A large decorative plate, sometimes used under dinner plates or other savoury-dish vessels in a multi-course meal; also service plate or underplate.
    The fancy restaurant used a white porcelain charger when serving.
* (firearms) A speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.
* (prison) A rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools.
** 2004, Brian Helgeland, 01:44:10 from the start, in Man on Fire:"See this? This is a charger. It's used by convicts to hide money and drugs. They stick it in their body, they tuck it up their rectum."
* Synonym of hard charger (“person with a good work ethic”)
** 1980, Bill Gulley, Mary Ellen Reese, Breaking Cover, page 161:Miller had a new executive officer, a real charger, as they're known in the trade, who was looking into all aspects of the operation up there.

#### Derived terms

* battery charger
* chargerless
* power charger
* supercharger
* twincharger
* wall charger

#### Translations
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”). Compare Spanish cargar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaʁ.ʒe/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: chargé, chargée, chargées, chargés, chargeai, chargez

### Verb

charger
* to load (up) (vehicle, animal etc.)
* to load (firearm)
* to charge (battery)
* to put in charge; to charge (somebody with doing something)
* to charge (somebody of a crime)
* (military, sports) to charge
* (theater) to overact, ham it up
* (reflexive, se charger de) to take care of, see to

#### Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written charge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

#### Derived terms

* charger la barque

#### Related terms

* caricature
* char
* charrier

#### Descendants

* Esperanto: ŝarĝi
* Persian: شارژ کردن (šârž kardan)

### Further reading

* “charger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French chargier.

### Verb

charger
* to load (with goods, etc.)

#### Conjugation

* As parler except an extra e is inserted after the final g before a and o.
* Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

#### Derived terms

* encharger

#### Descendants

* French: charger